Naw, it's not a space thing. I just want to use the albums on my phone for slide shows etc but have some FB albums that are old (read: college, full of drunken debauchery) and only shared amoung certain friends. It's probably time to take them down any ways.

Edit: made my first call on the 920. Damn the voice quality is a step up from that Sony Experia S!

Try to plug in/out a pair of headphones. For some reason, if you use headphones the phone will sometimes "forget" to return to the speakerphone for sound when you unplug them. I had the same issue on my iPhone 4S.

Dammit...why didn't I think of that? Matter of fact, I think this has happened to me before with either this phone or my iPhone 4 and I did that to resolve.

Perfect solution. Thanks. Back to working order.

Happened to me again. This time no amount of plugging and unplugging has worked. Tried 3 different cables, but no luck. Did a little wiggling, no luck.Soft reboot, no luck.With a speaker attached I can hear it fine. But just won't use the internal speakers.

I just picked up a Lumia 521 when HSN had it for $129 (I think right now Amazon has it for that price but doesn't ship for 1-3 weeks) and have been trying to set it up. I have a couple of questions about Windows Phone and for reference I've been using Android for the past couple of years.

1. Is there a way to set up a "family" Microsoft Account that I can use to make purchases and associate to the phone? In Android I have an account for my family where I make all purchases and then add it to each phone and tablet we have. That way we can all use the purchased software as well as have our regular main personal accounts. Windows 8 allows for something similar but from what I've been reading it seems like Windows Phone will only see purchases from the one primary Microsoft Account, is that correct?

2. Can you pin a One Note file to the home screen? It looked like I was able to pin other Office files but I wasn't seeing a way to pin a One Note file, which would be more useful to me (for shared to-do/shopping lists).

1. Is there a way to set up a "family" Microsoft Account that I can use to make purchases and associate to the phone? In Android I have an account for my family where I make all purchases and then add it to each phone and tablet we have. That way we can all use the purchased software as well as have our regular main personal accounts. Windows 8 allows for something similar but from what I've been reading it seems like Windows Phone will only see purchases from the one primary Microsoft Account, is that correct?

Nope. And the whiners about the xbone being like steam will prevent us from getting that on the consoles too. I was unaware there was a shared account mechanism on android (short of just sharing a google login... just that android phones aren't as integrated as wp is with all the services)

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2. Can you pin a One Note file to the home screen? It looked like I was able to pin other Office files but I wasn't seeing a way to pin a One Note file, which would be more useful to me (for shared to-do/shopping lists).

When you have a note open, there should be a pin icon. If someone else doesn't post a better instruction, I'll boot up one of my wp8 devices and check.

2. Can you pin a One Note file to the home screen? It looked like I was able to pin other Office files but I wasn't seeing a way to pin a One Note file, which would be more useful to me (for shared to-do/shopping lists).

Open the OneNote file, and look under the ellipses (three dot) menu. You will see "Pin to start".

2. Can you pin a One Note file to the home screen? It looked like I was able to pin other Office files but I wasn't seeing a way to pin a One Note file, which would be more useful to me (for shared to-do/shopping lists).

Open the OneNote file, and look under the ellipses (three dot) menu. You will see "Pin to start".

Yep very handy, with one caveat. How do you differentiate these?

I like to pin things like this (e.g. OneNote page Shopping list, OneNote shopping list, An Exchange folder for new alerts, an Exchange folder for closed alerts, etc.)... Is there now way to change the icon so I can quickly differentiate one from the other? As it is I have to memorize placement, it would be much easier if I could pick a different color for the icon, add a small bit of text to the icon, or anything that helps differentiate these...

Happened to me again. This time no amount of plugging and unplugging has worked. Tried 3 different cables, but no luck. Did a little wiggling, no luck.Soft reboot, no luck.With a speaker attached I can hear it fine. But just won't use the internal speakers.

I got a Lumia 521 a week or so ago. I initially downloaded the map data to the internal memory, but have since installed an SD card, and used Lumia Storage Check to store the map data on the SD card. Instead of moving the data, or erasing it and re-downloading it, I now have map data in both places. Is there any easy way to delete the map data from the internal storage, or am I better off just wiping the phone and starting over?

I'm not yet able to back up the phone to my iMac, as I'm still on OS X 10.6.8, but I do have the phone backed up to my Outlook account, if that makes a difference.

Probably wont see GDR2 until Nokia ships a phone with it. Nothing else is coming out, so I wouldn't expect much.

GDR3 is where's it's at anyway. Come on HTC, do not f up the WP version of the One.... Needs to be exactly the same thing, with windows logo where the htc logo is now... 1080p *LCD*, 4.7" screen, and not lumia huge.

AT WPC, they announced the unification of Windows and Windows Phone's app platforms this year. So yah, looks like we're getting standardization finally.

That's very good news. I read over on the windows team blog that they're planning to introduce more corporate features including "Access to corporate resources behind the firewall with app aware, auto-triggered VPN".

Also it looks like the specs have leaked for the Lumia 1020. 13 hours talk time, 2 GB RAM. Not really sure what "6 lens optics" or "High resolution zoom 3x" mean not being a camera guy. Is that last one some sort of optical zoom?

Just picked up a used Lumia 920 off eBay a few days ago. I had it mailed to my workplace, so I'll be picking it up tomorrow and seeing how it matches up with my Nexus 4.

I've always had mixed feelings about Windows Phone... I love the presentation of the OS, and Nokia makes the best phones period, but the lack of apps is always a concern.

For my usage, the lack of apps hasn't been an issue, with the exception of a banking app. Damn you Wells Fargo! All the other banks seem to have WP apps, why not you!

I've been using the Lumia 920 as my daily driver for the past week now. I like it. Automatic synchronization of photos to my Skydrive folder (instead of manual uploading on my Nexus 4) was the most welcome part of the switch. I found that my workflow has been more or less the same, sans official Google apps. But, instead of Google Docs, I simply switched over to Office Mobile, and use Metrotalk for Google Voice.

I'll still keep my Nexus 4 for when Google Glass arrives as a consumer product, but Microsoft has surprised me. Now, all WP needs is a notifications center and a quick settings bar, and it should be all set.

AT WPC, they announced the unification of Windows and Windows Phone's app platforms this year. So yah, looks like we're getting standardization finally.

That's very good news. I read over on the windows team blog that they're planning to introduce more corporate features including "Access to corporate resources behind the firewall with app aware, auto-triggered VPN".

Also it looks like the specs have leaked for the Lumia 1020. 13 hours talk time, 2 GB RAM. Not really sure what "6 lens optics" or "High resolution zoom 3x" mean not being a camera guy. Is that last one some sort of optical zoom?

It's the same kind of camera that's in the PureView 808, so no optical zoom. Instead it uses the high resolution to either allow you to zoom using digital cropping without losing too much quality or it helps with image quality in a zoom-less mode.

Which is very, very exciting for Windows Phone, because the 808 is the best camera phone you can get. As a phone, it sucks. But as a camera, it's managed to stand toe-to-toe in image quality with a lot of point-and-shoot cameras. If the image quality is good enough and it works as people hope, I'd get one just for the camera.

Now, all WP needs is a notifications center and a quick settings bar, and it should be all set.

Yah, I'll be happy when the notifications app finally gets here. As for quick settings, you can add a tile for Settings on your home page, and there are numerous apps that offer ways to deep link into specific settings areas for quick access from your home screen. Not the same, of course, but still very useful. I have one-touch access to WiFi and Airplane Mode on my home screen, using those.

That's very good news. I read over on the windows team blog that they're planning to introduce more corporate features including "Access to corporate resources behind the firewall with app aware, auto-triggered VPN".

Less talk and more results, plz. Their advancement of the Windows Phone platform happens at a worse than glacial pace. I mean, they announce these features for H1/2014, which may aswell just be end of June. Christ on a stick.

I'd love to grill the crap out of Ballmer about MS releasing stuff for non-WP devices before WP. With their new "One Microsoft" agenda, maybe they will actually dictate from the c-suite some, instead of letting the divisions be their own fiefdoms at war with each other.

How are consumers and businesses supposed to depend on WP when MS themselves won't even make it best-of-breed for themselves.

That's very good news. I read over on the windows team blog that they're planning to introduce more corporate features including "Access to corporate resources behind the firewall with app aware, auto-triggered VPN".

Less talk and more results, plz. Their advancement of the Windows Phone platform happens at a worse than glacial pace. I mean, they announce these features for H1/2014, which may aswell just be end of June. Christ on a stick.

Please to be justifying your comments. WP8 will have two more large updates to the OS this year, and that enterprise pack is by everything I've heard, a separate feature pack that won't be part of that OS flow. By any measure, their update pace is no worse than Apple's, and their existing phone updates are better than Android's. They're pretty middle-of-the-road when it comes to their OS updates. Hardly glacial. Plus, with the new reorg, no matter how many updates WP8 gets, it's not going to get called WP9 until windows 9 comes out.

I'd love to grill the crap out of Ballmer about MS releasing stuff for non-WP devices before WP. With their new "One Microsoft" agenda, maybe they will actually dictate from the c-suite some, instead of letting the divisions be their own fiefdoms at war with each other.

How are consumers and businesses supposed to depend on WP when MS themselves won't even make it best-of-breed for themselves.

Actually, I think you'll see more of things released for other platforms, possibly even before Windows. The new org setup theoretically makes it possible that MSSQL Server might not be bound to Windows Server for the first time ever. I think we'll see a lot of cross-platform plays from the groups that think it makes sense to offer for more than just windows. (e.g. the new app division where Office now lives)

I didn't say they shouldn't release stuff elsewhere, but there's no way in hell a company like Apple would let one of its divisions release a major feature on a major software project without having support for their own OSs.

They benefit greatly from having things available everywhere, but it'd be really stupid to actively drive away customers of your own OS by not bothering to support it... (Unless your goal is to kill said OS...)

Talk me into a 928 versus say a Razr HD on Verizon. Switching over from US Cellular - mainly for the 4G service. Been on various Android phones for the last two cycles, but it's getting tedious.

We use GApps for corporate mail; don't really use the rest of the services though. Need a good RDP/Remote Access app for work support, but pretty much everything else is expendable.

Did they add RDP to WP8? Or even VPN? You might want to wait for GDR3 or something to see if they actually add back in stuff that was good in WM6 into WP eventually.... (like, maybe multitasking even?) If those two items are key, I don't think you should assume they'll work. VPN especially.

Because the OSes functionality advanced so much over the initial WP7 release more than two years ago...

Crap, back button ate my post. Don't feel like retyping, but WP7 at launch and WP8 now are unrecognizable when it comes to function differences. It's changed a lot across the board, as much as iPhone at least.

From what has been announced, MS is keeping pace with one major release a year and three minors, which is also easily on pace with iPhone.

So it isn't the breakneck pace of Android updates, it's also not glacial compared to the other major player in the market. (and for MS, with app compatibility between Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 coming, and the teams merging, it's only going to come faster)

Talk me into a 928 versus say a Razr HD on Verizon. Switching over from US Cellular - mainly for the 4G service. Been on various Android phones for the last two cycles, but it's getting tedious.

We use GApps for corporate mail; don't really use the rest of the services though. Need a good RDP/Remote Access app for work support, but pretty much everything else is expendable.

Did they add RDP to WP8? Or even VPN? You might want to wait for GDR3 or something to see if they actually add back in stuff that was good in WM6 into WP eventually.... (like, maybe multitasking even?) If those two items are key, I don't think you should assume they'll work. VPN especially.

There are numerous remote desktop apps available on Windows Phone that work just fine. VPN, sadly, is still likely 6-9 months away, with the enterprise support pack.

Because the OSes functionality advanced so much over the initial WP7 release more than two years ago...

Crap, back button ate my post. Don't feel like retyping, but WP7 at launch and WP8 now are unrecognizable when it comes to function differences. It's changed a lot across the board, as much as iPhone at least.

From what has been announced, MS is keeping pace with one major release a year and three minors, which is also easily on pace with iPhone.

So it isn't the breakneck pace of Android updates, it's also not glacial compared to the other major player in the market. (and for MS, with app compatibility between Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 coming, and the teams merging, it's only going to come faster)

If you're referring to the kind of multitasking that Android has - you won't see it. The multitasking they added in WP8 is what it will be and I have no problems with that. It's hard enough to make a smartphone last an entire day without a charge, the last thing I want is some app to be constantly running in the background. The controlled background services in Windows Phone ala iOS is the perfect compromise in my opinion.

That's very good news. I read over on the windows team blog that they're planning to introduce more corporate features including "Access to corporate resources behind the firewall with app aware, auto-triggered VPN".

Less talk and more results, plz. Their advancement of the Windows Phone platform happens at a worse than glacial pace. I mean, they announce these features for H1/2014, which may aswell just be end of June. Christ on a stick.

Please to be justifying your comments. WP8 will have two more large updates to the OS this year, and that enterprise pack is by everything I've heard, a separate feature pack that won't be part of that OS flow. By any measure, their update pace is no worse than Apple's, and their existing phone updates are better than Android's. They're pretty middle-of-the-road when it comes to their OS updates. Hardly glacial. Plus, with the new reorg, no matter how many updates WP8 gets, it's not going to get called WP9 until windows 9 comes out.

no worse than apple's doesn't help when the os has a blip on the radar market share.

ms has to work 100% harder than apple and google right now. i like wp8 enough but they really need to be shooting updates out like a auto-shotty.

If you're referring to the kind of multitasking that Android has - you won't see it. The multitasking they added in WP8 is what it will be and I have no problems with that. It's hard enough to make a smartphone last an entire day without a charge, the last thing I want is some app to be constantly running in the background. The controlled background services in Windows Phone ala iOS is the perfect compromise in my opinion.

WP8 has background multitasking, but it's only allowed for stupid stuff (like streaming audio), and not communications stuff, like what a communication device, such as a smartphone, is useful for.

The correct way is how Windows 8 App Store apps handles it, in that background-able apps have to be in one of the limited lockscreen slots. And the user has to explicitly authorize an app to be on the lockscreen. That way if the user decides he wants his battery to go towards keeping a socket up, he can. Everybody wins. Lockscreen apps aren't given free reign either, they have specific requirements on power usage.

That way user A can burn up his battery streaming wanker radio, and user B would be allowed to have an IRC client running. Right now only user A is happy.

That's very good news. I read over on the windows team blog that they're planning to introduce more corporate features including "Access to corporate resources behind the firewall with app aware, auto-triggered VPN".

Less talk and more results, plz. Their advancement of the Windows Phone platform happens at a worse than glacial pace. I mean, they announce these features for H1/2014, which may aswell just be end of June. Christ on a stick.

Please to be justifying your comments. WP8 will have two more large updates to the OS this year, and that enterprise pack is by everything I've heard, a separate feature pack that won't be part of that OS flow. By any measure, their update pace is no worse than Apple's, and their existing phone updates are better than Android's. They're pretty middle-of-the-road when it comes to their OS updates. Hardly glacial. Plus, with the new reorg, no matter how many updates WP8 gets, it's not going to get called WP9 until windows 9 comes out.

no worse than apple's doesn't help when the os has a blip on the radar market share.

ms has to work 100% harder than apple and google right now. i like wp8 enough but they really need to be shooting updates out like a auto-shotty.

That is a completely different argument, though. I can appreciate that there is an argument to be made that MS is not putting out big enough and/or fast enough updates to complete, but the blanket statement that the updates are glacial is absurd.

That's very good news. I read over on the windows team blog that they're planning to introduce more corporate features including "Access to corporate resources behind the firewall with app aware, auto-triggered VPN".

Less talk and more results, plz. Their advancement of the Windows Phone platform happens at a worse than glacial pace. I mean, they announce these features for H1/2014, which may aswell just be end of June. Christ on a stick.

Please to be justifying your comments. WP8 will have two more large updates to the OS this year, and that enterprise pack is by everything I've heard, a separate feature pack that won't be part of that OS flow. By any measure, their update pace is no worse than Apple's, and their existing phone updates are better than Android's. They're pretty middle-of-the-road when it comes to their OS updates. Hardly glacial. Plus, with the new reorg, no matter how many updates WP8 gets, it's not going to get called WP9 until windows 9 comes out.

no worse than apple's doesn't help when the os has a blip on the radar market share.

ms has to work 100% harder than apple and google right now. i like wp8 enough but they really need to be shooting updates out like a auto-shotty.

That is a completely different argument, though. I can appreciate that there is an argument to be made that MS is not putting out big enough and/or fast enough updates to complete, but the blanket statement that the updates are glacial is absurd.

ah gotcha. i just want a flurry of updates to fix the small stuff. notifications, sound volumes, etc. all the biz class stuff or whatever i couldn't care less about.